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Cape Breton RCMP have charged an 18-year-old Inverness man making online death threats against students and staff of the Inverness Education Centre-Academy.
Police say officers received word of the threats posted on a social media site on Tuesday...

SYDNEY — A man now living in Howie Centre was given three months house arrest and ordered to donate $1,000 to a cancer charity after pleading guilty to several offences, including assault for slapping cyclists on the Cabot Trail in 2012.
Stephen...

Nova Scotians have good reason to mark the death on Sunday of T. Alexander Hickman, 90, the Newfoundland politician-turned-judge who presided over the 1986 royal commission into the wrongful conviction of Donald Marshall Jr. of Membertou.
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A preliminary inquiry in a high-profile Halifax murder case will be held in July.
Christopher Calvin Garnier, 28, is charged with second-degree murder and indecently interfering with human remains in the Sept. 11 killing of off-duty Truro police...Read More

The star witness in a murder case against infamous Halifax crime figure Jimmy Melvin Jr. will only have to testify once, thanks to a legal manoeuvre by prosecutors.
The Crown has filed a preferred indictment on the charge of first-degree murder,...Read More

A high-profile murder case was back in Halifax provincial court for a few minutes Tuesday.
Christopher Calvin Garnier, 28, is charged with second-degree murder and indecently interfering with human remains in the Sept. 11 killing of off-duty Truro...Read More

PARIS — The third gunman who terrorized Paris’ Bataclan concert hall before being killed last month in the attack was identified Wednesday as a Frenchman who left for Syria in 2013. The development came after his mother received a text message...Read More

A preliminary inquiry has been tentatively scheduled for July for two men accused of attempting to murder Halifax crime figure Terry Marriott Jr. seven years ago.
Jimmy Melvin Jr., 33, a notorious Halifax criminal, and Regan Taylor Henneberry, 32...Read More

Two men are facing drug charges after police searched two homes in the New Waterford area.
On Friday at about 4 p.m., officers used a search warrant and found a “substantial quantity” of hydromorphone and cash.
One resident was leaving as police...Read More

SYDNEY — Cape Breton University’s student union president continued to criticize administration Monday over its handling of an alleged weapon threat last month, even as the university began filming a mock police emergency exercise.Read More

A Halifax man accused of killing an off-duty Truro police officer has pleaded not guilty to damaging property at the Dartmouth jail.
Lawyer Joel Pink appeared in Dartmouth provincial court recently for Christopher Calvin Garnier, 27, on a charge...Read More

Reita Jordan’s family and friends shrieked in joy and burst into tears Sunday after Paul Trevor Calnen was found guilty of second-degree murder in her March 2013 death.
The verdict came on the fourth day of jury deliberations at the Hammonds...Read More

Paul Trevor Calnen’s story that his girlfriend died from an accidental fall at his house on the evening of March 18, 2013, is not believable and should be dismissed by the jury, the Crown says.Read More

BERLIN — A 51-year-old man arrested in Germany last week with weapons in his car may be linked to the Paris attacks, the governor of Bavaria said Saturday.
A spokesman for Bavarian state police confirmed earlier Saturday that firearms,...Read More

Cape Breton Regional Police say four Sydney men are facing a total of 32 charges in connection with break-ins in rural areas, including the Mira area and Marion Bridge, in September.
Two men were arrested, charged and released, while a third was...Read More